The Roosevelt Inn, Hyde Park

Very clean, neat, helpful staff, nice coffee shop. Excellent.

Our first four nights at the hotel were fine. It's old, but clean enough. Wireless internet did not work well in our room (as advertised), but we could take our laptop to the coffee shop and get excellent connection. Problem lies in the last night of our stay. The water pipes started wailing in our room. We called the office and the owner recognised the problem and said she was looking into it. Three times that night, we were awakened by the pipes. My husband let them know about it at checkout. He didn't ask for a reduced rate or refund -- just wanted to let them know. The owner/manager said she didn't believe we were wakened by the pipes. He restated that indeed we were --THREE TIMES--and he just wanted to let her know it was a problem. She stayed in the back room and basically called him a liar and wouldn't come out to address him. We won't stay there again.

The Roosevelt Inn at Hyde Park, NY is one of the cleanest, best maintained motels I have ever encountered. The buildings and rooms are immaculate. The motel is an older, 1950's-60's style without a lot of amenities and somewhat plain rooms, but the place is family owned and run and the proprietors show great pride in the business. The room was very spacious, TV worked just fine, and the bathroom was sparkling. Self-serve breakfast (coffee, rolls, bagels) is provided in a large, clean room. The motel is near the town center of Hyde Park, and a few blocks from the FDR home and library. The quality-to-price ratio is very high.